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   Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 05:10:45 JST Matt Blaze

   Signal provides:

   - Excellent protection against third party interception of communications (wiretapping).

   - Limited protection against compromised (hacked) or lost devices

   - No protection against certain common usage mistakes (accidentally including a reporter in your large group war planning chat).

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     skykiss ♾️🇺🇦 Vote Midterms (skykiss@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 05:49:49 JST skykiss ♾️🇺🇦 Vote Midterms

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     "Signal" was Hitler's magazine published by the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany from 1940. Recently Putin renamed his death squads Africa Corps same as the Nazi killers. Historical references names and dates are a favorite of the wanted war criminal Putin.

     I hope the same name for "Signal" is just a coincidence.

     @mattblaze

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(magazine)

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 05:49:49 JST Matt Blaze

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     • skykiss ♾️🇺🇦 Vote Midterms

     @skykiss Oh please.

     "Signal" is a extremely common term in communications. The fact that the term has been used for multiple things is neither surprising nor suspicious.

     And the Signal software has nothing to do with the current administration. Some of its members happen to use it. Just like, say, Microsoft Word.

     Yes, the administration is doing some awful things, but that's not a reason to make up stupid conspiracy bullshit.

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     Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 09:17:45 JST Kim Scheinberg

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     • mcc
     • AI6YR Ben

     @mcc @ai6yr @mattblaze
     If I learned anything from Eric Adams it's that I can change my phone's password, 'forget' what I've changed it to, and wait for half a dozen people to resign before my case gets indefinitely adjourned.

     🎶 The one thing we need is a left-handed monkey wrench 🎶

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 09:17:46 JST AI6YR Ben

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     @mattblaze LOL this last one seems the most relevant https://xkcd.com/538/

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 09:17:46 JST mcc

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     • AI6YR Ben

     @ai6yr @mattblaze To be clear, it's slightly more likely that rather than a literal wrench a government entity will simply issue a subpeona for your (or your chat counterparty's) chat logs and threaten jail if you don't comply.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 12:59:51 JST feld

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     @mattblaze if Signal didn't use phone numbers you couldn't accidentally pick a wrong contact from your phone's address book
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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 13:00:23 JST Matt Blaze

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     If you look at the systems that are supposed to be used for classified communications, the underlying cryptography isn’t particularly different from Signal (the AES cipher can be used to protect classified material). That’s not what failed here.

     The difference is that systems like Signal are designed to *facilitate* communication with anyone. Classified systems are designed to *limit* communication to authorized recipients.

     Both are sensible for their respective - very different - purposes.

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